Аn Interview with Predrag Caranović
Continuity of discontinuity
(Continuous discontinuity)
“Continuous beginnings have decided the syntax of my life.
On the other hand, if I look back in time, I do recognise it some regularity. Discontinuity becomes continuity. The events of my life had
influenced my work also. Still, this influence was not always remarkable, so I had never given it too much thought.
Great revolutionary events, I wasn’t really in charge of those.
The vortex of life has carried me following its own will, without a
plan, without certainty.
Within it, I was self-adjusting. Product of all of this is also a
product of my art making.
Continuity stereotype is difficult to apply to my case in particular. Things happened. I was never thinking of the next step, I always did what I wanted, what I was able to and what the moment
required.
The only compromises I had to deal with where with myself,
and even that sometimes was hard to do. That is why I tried not to
financially depend on sculpture only. I was always working on something else that would, in greater or lesser measure, guarantee my
financial security. I was never really dedicated to myself alone, in a
sense of a carrier building. I maintained the intimacy of creation, but
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